COMMENT After Pope Francis and Leo Varadkar recently referenced the saint, Kevin Hegarty looks at his life
The life and times of Columbanus
Second Reading
When theocracy met modernity
OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on the rise and fall of the present model of Irish Catholicism
Lough Derg – a drama in three acts
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on this history of Lough Derg and its gruelling three-day pilgrimage
The elephant in the sacristy
‘The present model of Irish Catholicism, which reached its zenith in the 1950s, is collapsing’, writes Kevin Hegarty
Camara’s camaraderie with the poor
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the life and times of brazilian archbishop and champion of the poor, Hélder Câmara
Letters from Robben Island
OPINION Nelson Mandela’s authentic voice emerges in his prison letters, published to mark the centenary of his birth
Matisse, his muse and the chapel
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the beautiful story of Henri Matisse, Sister Jacques-Marie and Vence Chapel
The west as muse
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on how the west of Ireland landscape has long been a source of inspiration for artists and writers
Mass rocks and mortal dangers
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the extreme challenges that many have faced to practice their Catholic faith over the centuries
Magdalene laundries and broken lives
OPINION Following the formal recognition of Magdalene Laundries inmates, Fr Hegarty revisits the injustices they endured
When the French woman landed on Achill Island
Fr Kevin on the Achill pages of ‘Three Months in Ireland’, by late 19th-century travel writer Marie-Anne de Bovet